If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.